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Frederick Thum III, MD
Emergency Medicine
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About Me
Dr. Thum is a practicing emergency physician and informaticist with interests in usability, Health IT safety and new paradigms of healthcare delivery and engagement such as telemedicine and digital health. He is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine, and Board Certified in Clinical Informatics by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Thum graduated magna cum laude from Drexel University after which he completed his MD at Rutgers University – New Jersey Medical School.
Dr. Thum has extensive experience in usability, implementation and workflow redesign. He conducted usability testing for a NIH-NIA funded study Improving management of acute pain for older adults in the Emergency Department (ED) setting. He has served as a consultant and advisor to telemedicine startups and has organized nationally attended conferences on connected health. He has used telemedicine to deliver care locally for a fortune 500 company in Midtown and as far away as a military base in Djibouti.
Regional / National Committees / Advisory Boards:
TouchCare Telehealth Consultant
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Language
English
Position
ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Morningside
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai West
Education
MD, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Internship, Transitional Year
St. Barnabas Medical Center
Residency, Emergency Medicine
Mount Sinai Hospital
Fellowship, Other, Not Listed
Mount Sinai Hospital
Certifications
American Board of Emergency Medicine
Insurance Information
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Publications
Selected Publications
- Mapping of HIE CT terms to LOINCVR: Analysis of contentdependent coverage and coverage improvement through new term creation. Paul Peng, Anton Oscar Beitia, Daniel J. Vreeman, George T. Loo, Bradley N. Delman, Frederick Thum, Tina Lowry, Jason S. Shapiro. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
- Standard anatomic terminologies: Comparison for use in a health information exchange-based prior computed tomography (ct) alerting system. Anton Oscar Beitia, Tina Lowry, Daniel J. Vreeman, George T. Loo, Bradley N. Delman, Frederick L. Thum, Benjamin H. Slovis, Jason S. Shapiro. JMIR Medical Informatics
- Usability evaluation of a clinical decision support system for geriatric ED pain treatment. Nicholas Genes, Min Soon Kim, Frederick L. Thum, Laura Rivera, Rosemary Beato, Carolyn Song, Jared Soriano, Joseph Kannry, Kevin Baumlin, Ula Hwang. Applied Clinical Informatics
Industry Relationships
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Thum IIIÂ during 2024 and/or 2025. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Outside Employment
- Medrite
Mount Sinai’s faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.